Back in the day......

[Coyote]

Free range childhood…galloping horses across the greens of an Uber exclusive school simply because it was there and they were snotty. We were total shits.

 

[miketx]

How the hell did we survive to adulthood?

There weren't any groomers trying to turn us gay or mutilate our genitals.

 

[Coyote]

There weren't any groomers trying to turn us gay or mutilate our genitals.

They only exist under your bed, darling.

 

[deannalw]

I liked paste.

I put glue in the groove of my ruler and made droopy fingernails.

 

[Coyote]

I put glue in the groove of my ruler and made droopy fingernails.

You were creative!

 

[petro]

Back in the day, only the *** kids with over protective mothers wore bicycle helmets.

 

[miketx]

They only exist under your bed, darling.

If so they would be dead.

 

[deannalw]

You were creative!

That's one way to put it...

 

[deannalw]

Back in the day, only the *** kids with over protective mothers wore bicycle helmets.

I never saw a kid with a helmet at all. We would have beat him up and made mud soup in that helmet.

 

[deannalw]

How the hell did we survive to adulthood?

Only parts of me did.

 

[Sunni Man]

When I grew up it was common for one of the kids in class to be wearing a cast for a broken arm.
That would be a rare sight today.
Seeing how kids don't play outside much.
They're in their room all day playing video games.

 

[deannalw]

When I grew up it was common for one of the kids in class to be wearing a cast for a broken arm.
That would be a rare sight today.
Seeing how kids don't play outside much.
They're in their room all day playing video games.

Some kids wore more band-aids than clothes.

My mom tired of spending more on band-aids than groceries and started yelling at us "Shut up and get outta here or I'll give you something to bleed about ! !"

 

[Coyote]

When I grew up it was common for one of the kids in class to be wearing a cast for a broken arm.
That would be a rare sight today.
Seeing how kids don't play outside much.
They're in their room all day playing video games.

It seems like someone always had a cast or stitches…I think it is sad today that kids only have play dates and structured play. We had a “gang”….outside, creating games, bicycling anywhere.

 

[Sunni Man]

Summer time we only had 3 rules
1) come home at noon for lunch
2) be back home at 6 sharp for supper
3) go into the house when the street lights came on

 

[JustAnotherNut]

How the hell did we survive to adulthood?

because we actually did all those things........it made us tougher than nails